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Chico, California

Chico Police Department

Chico, California. 569 flights in the record from October 2025.

569

drone flights in the published record.

19

flights in October 2026, the latest full month.

28%

took off between 10 pm and 6 am.

Chico Police Department drones flew 569 times between 3 October 2025 and 24 October 2026, by the agency's own published record. 19 of those flights were in October 2026.

Time of day
Day of week

Showing 19 of 19 flights in October 2026.

19 of the 19 flights with a published location in October 2026, sampled evenly. The record gives a point at the 100-block or intersection, not a path.
One flight, at its published block

28% of flights took off between 10 pm and 6 am (PDT).

— The record publishes no flight durations.

17 flights had a sensitive stated purpose. Those are counted but never listed or drawn.

Month by month

Flights per month, by takeoff date on the agency's local calendar. Click a month for its days.

  1. 39
  2. 42
  3. 16
  4. 103
  5. 60
  6. 26
  7. 51
  8. 55
  9. 36
  10. 33
  11. 30
  12. 59
  13. 19
Oct 25Nov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26

The two hatched bars are the most recent months and are provisional. The current month is still in progress.

Why, in the agency's words

The agency's stated purpose for each flight, grouped into classes, as a share of all 569 flights.

  1. Other82%
  2. Not stated15%
  3. Call for service2%
  4. Events0%

Hour of day

Takeoffs by hour of the day, local time, over the whole record.

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Flight list, October 2026

Every listable flight in the view, oldest first: date, takeoff time, purpose class, time airborne and the first eight characters of the source flight id. The filters above the map apply here too.

DateTakeoff (PDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
Sat 3 Oct 20263:17 amOther—6689e05e
Sat 3 Oct 20268:57 pmOther—061297e3
Mon 5 Oct 20262:44 amOther—ca05b6f9
Mon 5 Oct 20267:03 amOther—36443153
Mon 5 Oct 20267:16 amOther—ae004665
Thu 8 Oct 20266:59 amOther—c0c1324c
Thu 8 Oct 20267:11 amOther—07996375
Fri 16 Oct 20266:06 pmOther—4dc1210d
Fri 16 Oct 20266:27 pmOther—4f970e76
Fri 16 Oct 20266:49 pmOther—cb3eead3
Fri 16 Oct 20267:15 pmOther—92a96425
Fri 16 Oct 20267:37 pmOther—6dd9d95d
Fri 16 Oct 20267:57 pmOther—e8e341b1
Fri 16 Oct 20268:31 pmOther—0c370bca
Fri 16 Oct 20268:55 pmOther—c3255e41
Fri 16 Oct 20269:43 pmNot stated—2557b294
Sat 17 Oct 20265:35 pmOther—dfa1db81
Thu 22 Oct 202610:58 pmOther—7d0c9678
Sat 24 Oct 20261:56 amOther—ac4eb0d2

All 19 listable flights in October 2026. Flights with a sensitive stated purpose are counted in the totals but not listed. Times are local to the agency.

How this page is made

  • Nothing that landed in the last 48 hours is counted, listed or drawn.
  • Drawn paths are simplified to 10 m and lose their first and last 200 m; flights too short to keep an interior are counted but not drawn.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. Flights whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter are counted in totals and appear in neither the flight list nor on the map.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • Without filters the map draws at most 300 flights, sampled evenly from the latest full month, and the flight list is that month, capped at 500 rows. With filters the map draws at most 400 and the list at most 500, both sampled evenly, and the count line says when a cap applied. Each month's flights are a static JSON file under flights/ next to this page; the whole-record option is an even 300-flight sample.
  • Record source: Chico Police Department, via AirData public flight page (https://app.airdata.com/u/chicopd), licence: unlicensed public transparency record; AirData terms ('solely for your own use'); republication accepted by the owner 2026-10-30 (docs/rights-memo.md). Read from ../var/lib/drone-publish/work/sources/airdata/chicopd.json, no network at build time.
  • What this record does not publish: no duration (duration tiles and the length filter are not shown); no flight path (the map shows the published block-level point per flight; there are no per-flight pages or animations). Nothing is inferred to fill those gaps.

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